Ballon D’Or 2023

Helped his country win the World Cup 🤷‍♂️

He did that for sure, however, he’s not exactly done much else has he. He’s been pretty dormant all year apart from that.

He did that for sure, however, he’s not exactly done much else has he. He’s been pretty dormant all year apart from that.

Well that’s a pretty big deal isn’t 🤷‍♂️

Well that’s a pretty big deal isn’t 🤷‍♂️

Far too much emphasis on the World Cup for me Pj. I know it’s a part of it but it’s once every 4 years. I’d much rather see the winners coming from the best domestic teams in the world. After all, that’s where the best players are.

Well deserved messi, finally winning that elusive WC was the clincher.

End of an era now, himself and ronaldo wont win these again.

Some people  go on about needing to produce it in a World Cup to get the status for winning the Bent Ballon D’Or is bullsh!t. feck sake it’s every 4 years unlike the domestics be it here or in Europe which is every year. We all know if favours those who play in La Liga.

Not forgetting (( Haaland as an example)) will never win a World Cup because Norway don’t have the surrounding players to make that possible, they never even qualified.

We know Messi has produced it year in, year out and has won Ballon D’Ors on merit but not this one. Tell me what he’s done outside a competition that comes around every 4 years Over the last 12 months?

For the record he still didn’t do it in the hardest league in football and when he did was surround by world class players. Do I think he could have done it in the Premier league? Yes I do, BUT HE DIDN’T so that will always leave food for thought. Ronaldo did it in all the best league and certainly wasn’t surrounded by world class players all his life.

Rant over… 

Salah coming for the 2024 award!!!

Salah coming for the 2024 award!!!

Deserves to be in the make up but doesn’t play in La Liga. Bellingham will be given it next year.

Deserves to be in the make up but doesn’t play in La Liga. Bellingham will be given it next year.

Or Haaland, after he moves to Madrid next summer 

Salah coming for the 2024 award!!!

Na will be Ronaldo just so they can get his numbers as close to Messi as possible.

In a Euros season, form at the finals next summer will play a big part.  So if Bellingham were to repeat the form he showed at the World Cup in 2022, and continues to perform so well for Real Madrid, he'll definitely be a contender for the 2023-24 award.

Some people  go on about needing to produce it in a World Cup to get the status for winning the Bent Ballon D’Or is bullsh!t. feck sake it’s every 4 years unlike the domestics be it here or in Europe which is every year. We all know if favours those who play in La Liga.

Not forgetting (( Haaland as an example)) will never win a World Cup because Norway don’t have the surrounding players to make that possible, they never even qualified.

We know Messi has produced it year in, year out and has won Ballon D’Ors on merit but not this one. Tell me what he’s done outside a competition that comes around every 4 years Over the last 12 months?

For the record he still didn’t do it in the hardest league in football and when he did was surround by world class players. Do I think he could have done it in the Premier league? Yes I do, BUT HE DIDN’T so that will always leave food for thought. Ronaldo did it in all the best league and certainly wasn’t surrounded by world class players all his life.

Rant over… 

Pretty sure you’ve made numerous posts in the past that he can’t be considered the greatest ever cos he never had a World Cup to his name.

Now he does and apparently that’s no barometer cos it’s once every four years.

Sound like a Ronaldo fanboy

Pretty sure you’ve made numerous posts in the past that he can’t be considered the greatest ever cos he never had a World Cup to his name.

Now he does and apparently that’s no barometer cos it’s once every four years.

Sound like a Ronaldo fanboy

You’ll have to go in the archives of my post to find that one as I don’t remember. What I have said many times he’s never played in the best/hardest league in the world. I’ve also said even though never played in Premier league would probably still of been successful. However, he hasn’t and throughout his career he’s been surrounded by world class players more than any player I know, obviously that helps. 😉